Word: lacrossemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some years, there have been reports that local lacrossemen and golfers train on liquor and late dates. Perhaps these reports are totally unfounded. But they may well have reached the ears of the men who decide Harvard athletic policy thus become involved in the recent "economy steps." Such, at least, is the current Dillon Field House scuttlebutt...
Failing to secure reprieve in this direction, slighted lacrossemen (and others) might go back to the H.A.A. extravagance. It is reported, for example, that every member of the hockey squad receives a free pair of skates from the H.A.A., that tennis players get two free racquets apiece (ditto squash players and racquets), and that the H.A.A. pays three men overtime wages to collect blocking dummies from Soldiers Field after football practice everyday...
...Lacrossemen and golfers might, then, demand the elimination of such apparently wasteful expenditure of H.A.A. funds. They might demand a tight-money policy from the Athletic Department--in the hopes that enough dollars would be saved here and there to finance the reinstatement of their sports...
Another possible course of action for the slighted athletes and one that lacrossemen are already considering--is to raise on their own sufficient money to meet operating costs. Lacrosse players have presented this suggestion to their particular supporters among the alumni, who would presumably provide the cold cash...
There are, in fact, ugly rumors about that the Program may soon become much involved in the lacrosse controversy, since several potentially large contributors to the Fund Drive are old lacrossemen angered by the decision to de-emphasize their boyhood past-time...